and all, But Marshall, has one ackie all by itself, how would he understand anything Will posted? Hes only going by what hes told or has read. Which surely superceeds reality.

What Will is showing is common and I experience those types of behaviors all the time. Of particular interest is the male to male interaction.

When I first started, we kept a group of yellow ackies in an outside cage that is 20 by 20 and 10 feet high. There were many backing areas and trees and deep dirt over the entire floor. Yet the ackies hung out in the same area.

In this group there was a dominate male. Yet he was only partically dominate. As he would run off other males and breed the females. Except, he had a habit of sleeping late and the other males would get up early and breed the females before he emerged.

Then a funny thing happened, I placed a young male in the cage, his son. And much to my surprise, the older male did not run his son off. He always ran of other males, but not this one. To a point of, one day, the younger male was breeding with the old male right next to him.

Again, while this may not be social, it expresses a distint ability to have different behavioral relationships, with other individuals, both male and female. And that ability does suggest a possibility of being social.

over the years, these relationships are commonplace to a point of seeming normal. Even with members of another species. Cheers

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